The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-08-28
CASES AT THE HOSPITAL.
SOME PEOPLE THE ooUTERxEU1 sLIP
DOCTORS HAVE TREATED.

an Uister-Hsw OMaiier Get Efis Scalp
Wennd-Missinss wahs-sunstrshe Case.
DR.. Philip 3. O'Hnnlon, house surgeon Of
the Gouverneur Hospital, has gone to the Cats
kill Mountains for two or three weeks vaos-
uon. 1t II hardly TO b expected that there
win DO no ambulance calls in this time. but 10
has several times happened. ouriously enough,
when DR.. 0'Hanlon was away for day or two,
that tho ambulance had rest while he was
gone. On his return the calls tumbled In
again and the ambulance tumbled out 90 often
~ seven or eight times u day. But thsre IL no
doubt that DR.. Holman will have chance this
limo to keep up the rooord Of the Gouverneur
ambulance service, which 10 very highly spoken
OF for promptnoss and efficiency BY the police
OF tho Madison street, Eldridge street, and
Delaney street stations.
In other respects tho little,whits brick build
ing In broad and breezy Gouverneur slip has
come to be- Q worry well thought OF institution.
who's, establishment for the bonent Of the
dive lars In the crowded tenement districts Of
the lower east side was an excellent move BY
the Charity Commissioners. Besides tho am
bulance and hospital cases. the dispensary
cases have como to be very important part OF
the work. They have grown from maximum
Of Ave q day to anumbsr sometimes ss large
- one hundred. Last year they reached
total Of 1884
One Of the saddest cases In the hospital
practice was that Of q young English girl
who called herself Maggie Henwick. though
she admitted that was not her right name She
was III Tue nospitai several ti.nes. aud horstory
6he attributed the beginning OF her troubles
TO the attentions Of an English noblemAn, Sir
pairing her fault na Wers 6.ssd Tho Of
sc%pan a hi% 70 tIIs eoun.rs. e Bus on shsir
inmate S's So Ss' ii e up Sss Tor
short time and and gradually came down geo,
sasshsG ow dive in s,re. she
she had been In the hospital several times
she evinced desire to reform. DR.. o. Hanlon
they took nm Interest in her case. They as
ssnred the poor girl that she might yet DO saved.
o cove an s9 into
end dsspondeni, aoInetimss saying that ,shs
was ready to be- discharged she said
must to- &c. S.r eo. t.: s a5' sas a.d
sRs said sh$s no Sa' on: -. could i xss them Ss
to take drink. It endsd in her staying Io out
gil nght and returning to her old ne. In .
doctors had her transisrred to BELLEVUE Hos.
i,y With Which the Down hin course can bs
for the benefit OF the thoughtlsss. II was only
ca%ny es hss 81 hss Il
d9uvensnr Hospital a hopeless wreck.
lon 1s s OF oh ca
w1 s1s .ad III
he must havo Kissed tho biarney stone. He
P wss s sssa a5s @ sSS H. f.. S:d
troubled IT.. him eight years and was caused By
ets s. H ~ hs T an
h. astompanied tho preliminary ,statsmslt
sss THs fa'Sa e Eii :.s; ss.ulss
fsasenxs shs gsy m' she hfa pokss and
That's how got the ulster"
and 1t was puzzle to tho doctors how to get It
9 ~ he was evidently tough patient 20
o, ,R ,d" asksS a .hs doSsoE o!nnf
a E he "a, on came the bandags With : witch;
ON hs the ps,
subsidsd and fresh dressing was applied to
o sh ss .sS t 4 s1s e az
He Tia to be managed just this way 1t evary
well he Was n ready S to arn his he.i In al The The
away his cru,ch. but held on to the beloved
Tas S Ta h. w sss xaps EhS ss sy Win
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arm and tho other simply broken once. Is Also
remeInbered for his description Of how he was
h wa tba =, the wake * 81 The man ths
"snd the corpss's wife threw me down stairs"
Wakes are prolific causes Of hospital cases.
Of this. It was that Of young tough. one Of
ths kind that never nissss wake and the free
s at rsp.
among the moarners. an and hs has to fsiI BACK
isoW hosshs or would 6s soad Scheme to
reprsssnt himself "a, A. reporter The principal
posed, reporter advanced into the room With
%ha be snG Be- Gid e.. dssE I'D adg
die? Lam reporter"
~ The moprner said never word as she looked
o s. S Sss
hs sSs s9 9 reporter 1 5
man that 70 want 70 be writing about heri",
phc .pekhu w WuNiHk Cuo uauu cAcllouly Uut
eoon found that Insufficient, and the other was
brought out from behind her bask This dig.
Iron while In the. other room, and the young
tough fed down the stairs. The natiron came
mp with him, when he was half way down, aud
TO tho hospital.
The relsntant suicide practitioners. brought
In full Of East River wafer. covered with their
own own blood, or doubled up with the paln OF
In almost every case OF this kind the impeling
cause to self -murder seems very small and In
significant to them on looking back through
tho medium Of their experiences with the
and scarcely less narrowing ones with the
doctors, One man who had taken arsenic be-
cause his wife Kissed somo one else was In 4
very philosophical mood after bouts first with
the poison and then with the stomach pump.
He declared that u resort. to arsenic would
never occur to him again II his wife kissed oil
The Gouyerneur Hospital stan takes great
pride In the record that has been made there
IN sunstroke eases. They have rsyeraged four
thore does not include bleeding. the main re-
lance being upon the system Of packing pa;
conveniently with fne ice and rubber blank